Award winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues Joseph Hooker Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace Beginning with the somber morning of April the day of Darwin s funeral em Darwin s Armada em steps back in time and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers The four amateur naturalists voyaged separately from Britain to the southern hemisphere in search of adventure and scientific fame From Darwin s inaugural trip on the em Beagle em in through Wallace s exploits in the Amazon and later Malaysia in the s and s each man independently made discoveries that led him to embrace Darwin s groundbreaking theory of evolution This book reveals the untold story of Darwin s greatest supporters who during his life campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and who lived on to extend and advance the scope of his work p p pages of color illustrations by Iain McCalman

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XVIII br XVIII, strong A group portrait of the three British voyagers who became fierce defenders of Darwin s theory of evolution strong br br Award winning cultural historian Iain McCalman tells the stories of Charles Darwin and his most vocal supporters and colleagues Joseph Hooker Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace Beginning with the somber morning of April the day of Darwin s funeral em Darwin s Armada em steps back in time and recounts the lives and scientific discoveries of each of these explorers The four amateur naturalists voyaged separately from Britain to the southern hemisphere in search of adventure and scientific fame From Darwin s inaugural trip on the em Beagle em in through Wallace s exploits in the Amazon and later Malaysia in the s and s each man independently made discoveries that led him to embrace Darwin s groundbreaking theory of evolution This book reveals the untold story of Darwin s greatest supporters who during his life campaigned passionately in the war of ideas over evolution and who lived on to extend and advance the scope of his work p p pages of color illustrations, For the first time this innovative reference book surveys the Romantic Age through all aspects of British culture rather than in literary or artistic terms alone This multi disciplinary approach treats Romanticism both in aesthetic terms its meaning for painting music design architecture and literature and as a historical epoch of revolutionary transformations which ushered in modern democratic and industrialized society, Newgate in Revolution provides a useful and thought provoking anthology of radical literature satirical philosophical and political writings issued by the radicals and religious dissenters imprisoned in Newgate during the turbulent and nervous period br br Newgate was a dreaded prison during this period and its image and reputation coupled to make it the English equivalent of the French Bastille For those who found themselves incarcerated in Newgate the experience was debilitating and repressive However in the case of the radical prisoners it is a curious irony that this repressive environment actually encouraged a fraternal spirit and fertilised a rich production of ideas and literature which today offers a rare insight into this unique and fascinating culture Newgate in Revolution reproduces a representative selection of the radical literature published from Newgate including the first edited version of the prison diary of Thomas Lloyd